Saturday, June 23, 2012
DAYTIME EMMY AWARDS UNDERGOING CHANGES AS THEY ARE PRESENTED TONIGHT............
The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, which bestows the Emmy Award for excellence in television, developed recognition for daytime programming in 1974, when an annual broadcast in addition to the prime time Emmy Awards show, was established. From 1974 -1990, the Daytime Emmy Awards were broadcast on either ABC, CBS, or NBC, as an afternoon television special. Beginning in 1991, the Daytime Emmys have been aired in prime time on one of the major broadcast networks. Daytime dramas, game shows, talk shows, judge shows, and children's shows, are nominated in 68 categories. and chosen by members of the National Academy as winners in each of the entertainment, creative arts, and technical fields. As the landscape of daytime has changed over the past several years, with thinning numbers of soap operas which from the 1950's -2000's dominated the airwaves of daytime, the focus and viewership of the Daytime Emmys has shifted and the ratings declined. Moved out of May sweeps month at the conclusion of the television season, into the summer reruns period; the 39th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards will air tonight for the first time on cable television, namely HLN, Headline News, at 8 p.m. Eastern; 5 p.m. Pacific Time. Until HLN agreed to air this year's Daytime Emmys, whether it would have a national viewing audience was seriously doubted. How much of an audience on cable it will attract on Saturday night, the least watched night of television, is most likely lesser than before. Possible reasons some viewers may tune in is to see if, "All My Children", cancelled last year by ABC, will go out winning the Best Daytime Drama Award, which the 49 year old soap, "General Hospital", with twenty three total nominations tonight is favored; whether Anthony Geary, (Luke Spencer) of "General Hospital", and Erika Slezak, (Viki Lord) of the former "One Life To Live", will win their 7th Emmys each, setting a record for the number garnered by an actor; if, "Live With Regis and (Cindy, Kathy Lee) Kelly, after twenty eight seasons, can finally win the Best Daytime Talk Show Award, his farewell show last November the nominated broadcast; and if "Judge Judy", the most popular Judge show on daytime television will at long last get an Emmy. With talk shows and lifestyle shows taking hold of daytime tv, the tone, tenor, and timeslots, of broadcast and cable, and how they are recognized, are also undergoing a transition that may be as perilous as some of the scripts and storylines of daily soaps, past and present............TDP
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speaking of TV, the Lifetime Network has a good movie on right now called "Tall Hot Blonde" the Directorial debut of actress Courtney Cox -- it is a gripping story about losing sight of the boundary between reality and fiction on internet. I have dealt with several instances in counseling experiences of people who get so caught-up on the interent that it actually begins to effect the flow of their lives. One of the things I have observed, and perhaps it should be researched as part of a psychology thesis or doctoral dissertation...is that on the computer, the world of reality and the world of fiction frighteningly share a common plane--the emotional plane. So even, for example, if we concede that chat rooms etc can be 95% fictional, or in another example a person a continent away you can open up your heart & soul to without a chance of ever meeting that person, the non-actual world encroaches onto the actual world because the emotional plane is common to both, as we participate and type-away on the internet. Anyway, the movie Tall Hot Blonde playing right now on the Lifetime TV network, is a most gripping movie based on an actual incident.
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